Recovery of Consciousness and Functional Outcome in Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to 2.9 million visits to US emergency departments annually and frequently involves a disorder of consciousness (DOC). Early treatment, including withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies and rehabilitation, is often predicated on the assumed worse outcome of disrupted consciousness.

Objective

To quantify the loss of consciousness, factors associated with recovery, and return to functional independence in a 31-year sample of patients with moderate or severe brain trauma.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study analyzed patients with TBI who were enrolled in the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database, a prospective, multiyear, longitudinal database. Patients were survivors of moderate or severe TBI

SUBMITTER: Kowalski RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7922241 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature